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Q2 2023 Earnings Call· Tue, Aug 8, 2023

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Operator

Operator

Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Q2 2023 Datadog Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speakers’ presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Yuka Broderick, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Yuka Broderick

Analyst

Thank you, Gigi. Good morning, and thank you for joining us to review Datadog's second quarter 2023 financial results, which we announced in our press release issued this morning. Joining me on the call today are Olivier Pomel, Datadog's Co-Founder and CEO; and David Obstler, Datadog's CFO. During this call, we will make forward-looking statements, including statements related to our future financial performance, our outlook for the third quarter and the fiscal year 2023 and related notes and assumptions, our gross margins and operating margins, our product capabilities, our ability to capitalize on market opportunities and usage optimization trends. The words anticipate, believe, continue, estimate, expect, intend, will and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements or similar indications of future expectations. These statements reflect our views only as of today and are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. For a discussion of the material risks and other important factors that could affect our actual results, please refer to our Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2023. Additional information will be made available in our upcoming Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2023, and other filings with the SEC. This information is also available on the Investor Relations section of our website, along with a replay of this call. We will also discuss non-GAAP financial measures, which are reconciled to their most directly comparable GAAP financial measures in the tables in our earnings release, which is available at investors.datadoghq.com. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Olivier.

Olivier Pomel

Analyst

Thanks, Yuka, and thank you all for joining us this morning. Our team continued to execute well in Q2 as we welcome thousands of attendees at our Dashes conference last week. We continue to deliver a large number of new product innovations and we recorded strong new logo bookings throughout the quarter. Let me start with a review of our Q2 financial performance. Revenue was $509 million, an increase of 25% year-over-year and above the high-end of our guidance range. We ended with about 26,100 customers, up from about 21,200 last year. We ended the quarter with about 2,990 customers with ARR of $100,000 or more, up from about 2,420 last year. These customers generated about 85% of our ARR, and we generated free cash flow of $142 million, with a free cash flow margin of 28%. Now let's discuss this quarter's business drivers. At a high level, first, we saw Q2 usage growth for existing customers that was a bit lower than it had been in previous quarters. Second, we do see signs that cloud optimization may start to subside. And third, we continue scaling our sales with strong new logo bookings in Q2. Going one-level deeper. In Q2, we saw usage growth for existing customers that was a bit lower than it had been in previous quarters. We continue to see customers, particularly some larger spending customers, scrutinize costs and optimize their cloud and observability usage during Q2. We are reflecting this lower growth in our updated guidance for 2023, and David will provide more commentary regarding our guidance geography. On the other hand, we are seeing signs that the cloud optimization across our customer base may start to subside. The cohort of customers who began optimizing about a year ago appear to have stabilized the users growth…

David Obstler

Analyst

Thanks, Olivier. Q2 revenues was $509 million, up 25% year-over-year and up 6% quarter-over-quarter. In Q2, we continued to execute solidly and we also continue to see pressure on the usage growth of existing customers. To dive into some of the drivers of Q2 performance. First, as to usage growth of existing customers, we saw positive usage growth this quarter to lower than in recent quarters, with broadly similar trends across our product lines. While too early to draw broad conclusions, existing customer usage growth improved in July and was more similar to Q1 than that of Q2. We saw more pressure on cloud native businesses than traditional enterprise customers, similar to previous quarters. Regarding customers by spending size, the more moderate growth trends were consistent across the customer base with relatively more pressure on usage growth rates with larger customers. As Olivier discussed, the cohort of customers who began optimizing about a year ago, appear to have stabilized their usage growth with Datadog, though, we recognize that the growth rates of these optimizing customers may remain muted and other customers could optimize. Regarding total customers. Our customer count increased to 26,100 from 25,500 last quarter. This quarter's total paying customer count includes a one-time cleanup of about 200 financially immaterial customers at the very low end, who are moved to our free tier. Our gross customer additions have remained strong, especially with larger customers. Meanwhile, we are seeing some churn of smaller customers who have limited impact on our revenues. As a result, our gross revenue retention rate remains unchanged in the mid to high 90s, indicating the stickiness of our product and the importance of our product to our customers' operations. We are executing on strong new logo bookings and new customers contributing meaningfully to our growth as…

Operator

Operator

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Raimo Lenschow from Barclays.

Raimo Lenschow

Analyst

Hey. Thank you. Olivier, on the -- if you think about the niche, can you discuss a little bit in the nature (ph) of the optimizations that you see when you compare a little bit what you saw at the early parts of the -- after recession or the cycle late last year versus what you see now. Does the nature has changed there in terms of what you're seeing there? And then I have one follow-up, David.

Olivier Pomel

Analyst

No, we don't see a big change in the nature of the optimization, it's a mix of a optimization of the cloud workloads themselves and little bit also on the observability side for the new (ph) products that have volume that can be separate from the cloud workloads, such as log from metrics and things like that. I would say, so this quarter we did see a little bit lower growth as we said in the comments across the board from existing customers. We suggest that the customers have started optimizing earlier, we're not done yet and some others have started later and they all across many are (ph) there. We did see, however, that some of the customers in the course of customers and but you're going to stay optimizing a year ago and that we're on the larger side and on the primary side has stabilized their growth. And we feel a lot more confident now that they've done at least as far as they know. As we've seen some of these customers start committing long-term forward again with us and at levels that are at or above their current levels of usage, which suggest that you have a good idea of what is going next, which is all inspired -- part of what you for your comments about the -- fact that we think we might we see some signs that the this period by end. Still too early to call it, but we see some -- we seem to be on more solid ground there.

Raimo Lenschow

Analyst

Yes. Okay. And then just linking that up with the guidance because that's where I get a lot of the questions, you think about your Q3 and then Q4 implied guidance, even given that you had a full year there's obviously still headwinds on growth that are kind of coming there. Like how much of that Q3, Q4 is kind of a lagging effect of what we've seen before versus kind of maybe other factors like conservatism, et cetera.? Thank you.

David Obstler

Analyst

Yeah, it's both. Because our growth was a little lower than in Q2 than it had been in the previous quarters. We have that effect moving forward given our recurring revenue model. And then on top of that, we -- in our guidance philosophy, we discount the most recent performance, particularly around usage growth, but also in new logos. So it’s a combination of both of that, those flowing through in our financial results for the year.

Raimo Lenschow

Analyst

Okay. Perfect. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. One moment for next question. Our next question comes from the line of Sanjit Singh from Morgan Stanley.

Sanjit Singh

Analyst

Thanks, guys for taking the question. I think I understand the comments around slower usage growth trends, particularly compared to Q1. I just wanted to dig into sort of issues around competition. David, you mentioned sort of higher churn at low end. We see total customer count growth slow down this quarter. So we think of about either [indiscernible] competition, competition with open source or DIY or maybe even customers rather than getting to hyperscale or needed solutions. Has it seen any sort of pick up there? And is that a potential as part of the mix of why we're seeing slower usage trends this quarter?

Olivier Pomel

Analyst

Sanjit, you're breaking up a little bit. So I hope I answered your question appropriately, but the -- we do see a slightly higher return at the very, very low end. This is more related to the health of what happens to tiny, tiny businesses that use us for small amounts and that themselves might disappear go out of business or start having needle together. We did have a onetime cleanup also this quarter as we -- on an ongoing basis, we don't create some customers if they are not super active in the platform or if they are deals are out -- are not paid up today. We changed some of the criteria around that, which ended up with a onetime cleanup of 200 customers, which changed a number there. But beyond that, we do see a little bit higher churn at the very, very low end. The numbers there are small in terms of revenue. They're actually completely material and the overall gross retention remains unchanged and in the mid to high 90s in aggregate.

David Obstler

Analyst

We said that -- I think on the other side of it, we said that in dollars, we had a strong new logo bookings and also cross-sell. And a lot of that, as I said in my comments, or a portion of that tends to be consolidation onto the platform, which has been going on a long time.

Olivier Pomel

Analyst

Yeah. And beyond that, I think it's a good point, David, we do see -- we're actually very happy with what we see on the new product and new logos out of the business. We're lending record numbers of new customers of scale and we're also seeing more and more consolidation on to us. If nothing else, the committee dynamics seems to turn more into our favor as time goes by there, independently from what we see in terms of churn or go to very end (ph).

Sanjit Singh

Analyst

I appreciate the color. And then David and Olivier, you made some sort of, I guess, preliminary comments of potentially seeing some green shoots on the optimization headwinds that we've seen over the last several quarters. In terms of the percentage of the base that hasn't optimized, any sort of color how large that is? What percentage of the customer base hasn't yet optimized but potentially could going forward?

Olivier Pomel

Analyst

We can't really give you a percentage there. But the cohort we mentioned on the call was the one we were looking at for getting a sense of stabilization in the optimization was the cohort that started optimizing the first that was typically large in volume, very cloud-native in nature and that we consider to be the highest risk one. So the one that weighed on our growth numbers, the most over the past few quarters and that's the one we based on a lot of comment on. In addition to the other trends that David mentioned earlier, on the fact that in aggregate, we saw our growth of existing customers pick up first late in Q2 and then in July.

Sanjit Singh

Analyst

I appreciate the color, Olivier. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Mark Murphy from JPMorgan.

Mark Murphy

Analyst

Yes. Thank you very much. Once the larger customers have compressor spending, and obviously, there's a limit to how much they can compress that. Then they're going to need to grow that spending again. And at some point, you're going to have growth ramping pretty materially in security. It sounds like that has started and all of the LLM observability. And then you're going to have easier comparisons as we head into 2024. Is it reasonable to think that optimizations could be further subsiding as you're entering 2024 based on your comments. And then for all these reasons, should we be optimistic on growth picking up just relative to how it's going to exit in Q4 of this year, which I think is around -- which I think is around the mid-teens. And I know it's hard to answer because you haven't guided on that yet or would you be imagining, David, that we might kind of just drag across that 15% into 2024 as a starting point. And if you can't answer it numerically, maybe you could just kind of speak to some of these time frames qualitatively. Thank you.

David Obstler

Analyst

Yeah. I think we haven't provided guidance for next year. We cited that given the amount of our revenue growth that embedded in our existing customer base. The timing of the lapsing of optimization is critical to that. We said we see green shoots has been said, but it's too early to call that. So that's the biggest factor. In addition, we said that our new logo performance in terms of assigning new customers who then ramped is another green shoot that could do that, but it's -- we haven't provided guidance on specific numbers for next year, so I really can't go further.

Olivier Pomel

Analyst

Well, look, I mean, we are -- obviously, we're optimistic that we're still very early in a big tech transition. Short-term, we don't really control the growth of existing customers and how much to optimize their cloud environment and things like that. But for everything that we control and we secure on, which is new products, the quality of the products and the new customers and the attach of these new products with customers. Everything we see seems to be working and we see great results from that. And these are obviously great trends for the future. The one thing I would add is that in our conversation with our customers at a conference just last week. Most of the conversations were around who we're going to get our customers to implement new use cases, add up new products, scale up, consolidate onto our platform. There was still a little bit of customers thinking about cost control, optimization and things like that, but we also see less a bit of a time. So when that kicks in, in terms of the overall growth in aggregate, as David said, it's too early to tell and we want to be careful there because we know sometimes our customers will know everything themselves. They might face more difficulties as they go. But we're very optimistic about the mid, long term, obviously.

Mark Murphy

Analyst

And Olivier, thank you for that. Just as a quick follow-up. You mentioned strong new logo bookings and I think we don't see that in the new customer count, but you rattled off a handful of seven and eight figure wins, which I believe each and every one of this sounded like a consolidation play onto other vendor -- off of other vendors and displacing those on to Datadog. Am I interpreting it accurately to think that maybe you're seeing a pretty big shift there, where maybe in terms of just win rates, competitive displacements kind of seeing this vision of the consolidated platform really putting a dent in the competitive landscape to Datadog's advantage?

Olivier Pomel

Analyst

Yeah. Well, in general, we see it and we see -- by nature, this consolidation deals tend to be the ones that have the biggest headline number when we close them as opposed to just a continuation of their existing run rate we have with those customers. So that's what causes the step functions there, and that's why we call them out on the earnings call. But in general, we have a record number of new business deals across -- above $100,000. So what you don't see in the overall number of customers is the spread between smaller, medium and larger. There's quite a bit of noise at the low end of that customer count, which makes the number ebb and flow a little bit. But for the part that we target with our sales force, which are the middle and the high end of it, where we actually see those numbers go nicely and commensurately with all sales force. So we're very happy about that.

David Obstler

Analyst

Just to clarify the customer count. So on gross additions, a number -- very consistent with what we've seen in previous quarters. But as Olivier mentioned, more larger deals resulted in a higher average land. That's what produced the record Q2. And the net -- the weight on the net is, we mentioned the cleanup, but on the very low end customers that are on the border between very, very slight usage and free trial. So the gross addition activities were consistent and strong. And in fact, I think as you mentioned and as you get to the larger deals, you have more consolidation impetus within those wins.

Mark Murphy

Analyst

Thank you very much.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Kash Rangan from Goldman Sachs.

Anisha Narayan

Analyst

Hey. This is Anisha (ph) on for Kash. Two quick questions. One may be on usage growth slowdown. Is that coming from particular end markets or segments or verticals that you can highlight? And second, maybe on hiring, while you're seeing green shoots in new logo growth and we had a great number of announcements from the DASH conference, what would give you conviction to ramp up hiring or since you've moderated your go-to-market motion right now? Thank you.

Olivier Pomel

Analyst

Yeah. On the -- so first on the growth slowdown. This is, I would say, across the board with the optimization, but it is a lot more pronounced with cloud-native businesses than with traditional enterprises. And the reasons for that are that cloud native businesses have a lot more they're spending on the cloud and a lot more of an emphasis on saving there than the larger enterprises that are a lot earlier in the cloud migration and that still have most of their system or a majority of their IT spend that is outside of cloud. So this is where we've seen the most optimization. It's still where we see the most optimization, though, as we said in the call, we saw that the earlier cohorts of cloud-native customers that started optimizing a year ago are showing some stabilization and some higher commitments with us in the past couple of months. In terms of hiring, I think we're still growing the company, and we're still investing. What we've done is we have moderate to that of growth to align on the -- on what we've seen in the market. But we still consider we are very, very early in terms of the -- or put our journey. We still have a lot to build in observability. We have a lot to build in security. We have a lot to build and develop our workforce and developer experience. We have a lot to be in ITSM. There's many, many new use cases we're going after, including AI. And so we're not going to stop hiring and we're not going to stop innovating there. The last thing I'll mention is that we've also been growing our go-to-market teams. And the reason for that is those investments in go-to-market are yielding incremental growth on the new logo and new product side. As we said in the call, that part of the business has been working very well, and we’re very satisfied with the output there. So we’ll keep growing the team while being mindful of the margins we need to protect.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Jacob Roberge from William Blair.

Jacob Roberge

Analyst

Hey. Thanks for taking my questions. Obviously, AI is something that a lot of customers are excited about, but we're hearing that it may be delaying purchasing decisions in other parts of that tech stack until customers kind of figure out how they want to incorporate AI into their broader organization and just how much that will cost? Do you feel like that dynamic impacted Q2 at all with just maybe a near-term low in IT spending until broader AI plans are finalized? Or is the updated guide mainly just driven by the optimizations you've been calling out?

Olivier Pomel

Analyst

We don't really see that trends play. I would say -- the one thing I would say is or AI customer is fully into two accounts right now. They are the ones that have been working on it for the past two, three years, that our providers of AI themselves or business that are completely built on AI and we see those business reaching scale, in some cases, very large scale right now. And -- but it's a relatively small number of customers. There's a much larger number of customers that are standing to embrace AI. But those are still early, and it's probably going to take a number of quarters even yours in some cases for those use cases and those customers to reach full scale. So again, a much larger number of customers, but quite early. So we have those two trends at play when you look at our AI penetration and the AI adoption.

Jacob Roberge

Analyst

Okay. Helpful. And then you called out the strong new logo bookings quite a few times there. Are there any commonalities between those customers from just a size or maybe an industry perspective? And I'm curious if you've started to see any of the newer generative AI-focused companies that are creating these LLMs start to actually layer into your model from a customer perspective?

Olivier Pomel

Analyst

Right. And is part of your question -- can you read it? You were – your volume was a little bit low.

Jacob Roberge

Analyst

Yeah. The first part was just around the strong new logo bookings and just if there was any commonalities between those customers from a size or an industry perspective?

Olivier Pomel

Analyst

The new logo bookings are in terms of value like their [indiscernible] at mid-market and enterprise. So on the larger side and on the more traditional side. We have a number of companies or customers that are also the providers of AI, but some of those have been customers for some time already. And in some situations, we have new business units of existing customers that were with us for a while, but also started new business units around AI that start adapting more product. More recently, we have one of those also in the call comments from a very large customer.

Jacob Roberge

Analyst

Great. Thanks for taking my questions.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Brent Thill from Jefferies.

Brent Thill

Analyst

On sales and marketing in Q2, you've never been down sequentially. Are you holding back on quota-carrying rep hiring to get the reps productive? Are you going to be adding on that side? And a quick follow-up.

David Obstler

Analyst

The biggest factor there was the sales kickoff that would be in the first quarter and not in the second quarter. So the change has more to do with the timing of events. Be that as it may, as Olivier (ph) mentioned, we're continuing to invest in sales quota-capacity, but we are growing that at a lower rate than we did last year. But the major factor in the sequential was a seasonal thing around events.

Brent Thill

Analyst

Okay. And real quick, just some of the large customer adds in 80, your cadence was pushing 130 to 170. So is something competitively going on there or is it just you're equally seeing the SMB and Enterprise act the same way in terms of their conservatism?

David Obstler

Analyst

I didn't understand -- what -- I didn't understand the question.

Yuka Broderick

Analyst

Brian, you're talking about the net adds of $100,000 plus customers?

Brent Thill

Analyst

Correct.

David Obstler

Analyst

It was 80 versus 130 to 170 in the last four quarters. Yes. I would say that we said that the number of customers has been relatively steady, although, it's decelled (ph). And we have gotten, I would say, in that range in land, the average land has been larger. So of those that are landing smaller. And when net retention goes down because the major source of customers going into that would be from customers below $100,000. And bigger factor would be that it takes longer for those customers to evolve into a 100,000, and that's the biggest factor in that.

Olivier Pomel

Analyst

Yes. And just to reiterate what we're saying, we're very happy with the addition of customers on the medium and large size. These numbers are going up across the board in terms of new customers and new products and -- so we feel very good about that. And if nothing else, the things are improving there.

Brent Thill

Analyst

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Michael Turits from KeyBanc.

Michael Turits

Analyst

Hey, guys. Two questions. First, can you finish on [Technical Difficulty] Can you just talk about how usage traded month by month, April, May, June? And if you can go there any logic around that? And then my second question is just, Olivier, you had said there was the difference between those [Technical Difficulty].

Olivier Pomel

Analyst

I didn't hear your second question. You're breaking up a little bit. So the first question -- and for the first question to start, maybe was on the ERT during the quarter, I guess. Yes. So ERT was not completely out of the ordinary for us. So I will say we see -- we had a low in May. I would say in late April and May, we started having a low. And then things improved in June and improved some more in July, which is after the end of the quarter. That being said, as we -- for more guidance for the rest of the year, we based that on what we saw throughout the quarter and we discount it. And we're trying to avoid looking too much at what we saw the partial quarters we go after that. That's been offset as you through that, and we'll stick to that today.

Michael Turits

Analyst

Thanks. And then the second question was the optimization that was particular to absorbability. Is there any difference across your major product categories, let's say, APM versus logs versus infrastructure?

Olivier Pomel

Analyst

So the ones that are the most sensitive to that are logs, some part of infrastructure, which is custom metrics and some part of APM, which is additional large volume transactions that customers might tradition to what they get included with every single cost to deploy APM on. And we've seen some optimization on that, that's been specific to observability. I would say it does go hand in hand with the overall co-optimization our customers are doing. So the timing might always be exactly the same, which is also why we're careful about the trends that we're forecasting based on the sort of the improvement we've seen recently.

Michael Turits

Analyst

Okay. Thanks.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Andrew Nowinski from Wells Fargo.

Andrew Nowinski

Analyst

Okay. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. So I want to start with a clarification. Did you actually lower your discount rate that you apply to your organic growth relative to your annual outlook or when you put that together this quarter?

David Obstler

Analyst

Yes, we would essentially discount the most recent assumption. So if the most recent assumptions were lower, we said they were lower in Q2 then we would be lowering that in the guidance assumptions going forward.

Andrew Nowinski

Analyst

Right. So it wasn't just the organic growth rate being lower, your actual discount rate was lower, too?

David Obstler

Analyst

I don't know -- sorry, I don't understand your question. We do our guidance based on taking the assumptions and then discounting. I don't know -- you'd have to clarify what you mean by the discount rate.

Olivier Pomel

Analyst

We don't have a discount rate card for guidance. But we do discount the historical, as we give guidance for the future.

Andrew Nowinski

Analyst

Okay. Fair enough. And then I just had a question on that large deal, the eight-figure deal. Is that large enough that we should normalize it when we think about our estimates for next year pr do you have enough of those eight-figure deals in the pipeline that it will blend out?

Olivier Pomel

Analyst

I don't think you need to normalize for it.

Andrew Nowinski

Analyst

Okay. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Taz Koujalgi from Wedbush.

Taz Koujalgi

Analyst

Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my question. I have a question on the new logo bookings that you mentioned. What is the average duration of new bookings or new logo bookings? And how has that trended so far?

David Obstler

Analyst

We haven't discussed the duration of new bookings versus existing bookings, our durations in terms of contract it tended to be just under a year, nine months to 10 months, but we haven't given information on the difference between new bookings, I would say the larger -- if you're getting to the because most of the revenues are existing customers, if it's -- if you're talking about renewals or new contracts on existing customers that would have the larger effect on contract duration. As we said, there was a trend towards longer-term deals, which extended the duration in terms of our existing customers.

Taz Koujalgi

Analyst

And just to clarify, the duration for new customers was consistent with the prior quarter or was it higher?

Olivier Pomel

Analyst

The duration increased. So we said that the RPO total was higher than the current RPO and that the reason was that duration had gone up slightly from previous periods. Duration increased in contracts.

Taz Koujalgi

Analyst

Yeah. Very helpful. Just one follow-up. That 40% of the new, I guess, revenue growth came from new customers. So 10 points of the revenue growth came from new customers who signed up in the last, I guess, year. Is that a consistent metric or was that higher or lower than what you usually see?

Olivier Pomel

Analyst

Yeah. We report that in our Qs. That's -- the 40% has is higher than it had been. That's mathematically true when net retention goes down with more consistency of new, you would have a higher percent. The 10 points, so the 10 points of growth or of our growth would be something that would be more consistent and not as dependent on the net retention.

Taz Koujalgi

Analyst

Got it. Thanks very much.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Koji Ikeda from Bank of America Securities.

Koji Ikeda

Analyst

Hey, Olivier and David. Just 1 from me here in the interest of time. Olivier, in your prepared remarks, you called out 2% of ARR being generated from next-gen AI customers. I wanted to dig into that a little bit more. How should we be thinking about how you define what a next-gen AI customer is that an existing customer with very specific AI initiatives or is that a next-gen AI-specific customers, say, like an LLM vendor? And then what was that contribution during 1Q? Thanks, guys.

Olivier Pomel

Analyst

So it's -- you can see it as the customers that are either selling AI themselves. So that would be LM vendors and the like. Our customers whose whole business is so is built on differentiated AI technology. And we've been fairly selective in terms of who we put in a category because companies everywhere are very eager to said that they differentiate we are today. So this is an illustration basically of the new kinds of businesses we've seen emerge, I would say, in the past year, 1.5 years, two years. In some cases, it might be divisions of existing larger companies, but in most situations, these are fairly recent and newer companies.

David Obstler

Analyst

We didn’t give a comparable for the numbers. This is the first time we disclose this. And we probably won’t disclose it on a regular basis just to give more color to what we see in the market today.

Koji Ikeda

Analyst

Got it. That’s super helpful. Thank you very much for taking the question.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Patrick Walravens from JMP Securities.

Patrick Walravens

Analyst

Great. Thank you. I'd love to hear what you thought about the attendance at Datadog Dash in San Francisco versus your expectations? And then more broadly about the -- or your thoughts around the return to in-person events like this?

Olivier Pomel

Analyst

So overall, we're actually very happily surprised. So we have decided to go to put Dash in San Francisco this year. So we switch things up a little bit and maybe see different customers than the ones we see when we do it on the East Coast. We're a little bit worried to be honest because we did it in the summer in San Francisco, and we had heard our stories about or get people into price to show up. And we've been very, very happily surprised. We got great attendance actually higher than we had modeled, which forced us to scramble the first day to add some shares in the keynote roads. And so overall, the time was very good. The conference was very productive. That was very, very good. In terms of the return to in-person events across the board, we see them happen whether that’s our own conference or the other industry or an conferences that we exhibit at, we see a lot of success with those again. And since customers are very eager to connect and come to these events. So definitely something that’s happening this year that was maybe not happening as much the years before.

Patrick Walravens

Analyst

Okay. Thanks, Olivier.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Gregg Moskowitz from Mizuho.

Gregg Moskowitz

Analyst

Thank you for taking the question. First for Olivier and then I had a follow-up. So given the slight improvement in usage trends that you cited in the first quarter, it was a bit surprising to hear that Q2 usage growth for existing customers was a little lower than prior quarters because we haven't really been hearing this from other consumption business models that have recently reported. And I'm just wondering if you have any thoughts as to why the usage growth for existing customers may have downtick this quarter? Anything come across?

Olivier Pomel

Analyst

Well, I think it's -- look, at the end of the day, we have a slightly different customer mix than some of the other folks. There are some optimizations that are with others that are special to cloud that maybe it's also specific to different clouds of which we have a different mix than the rest of the industry. So when you combine all of that, you might see some different timing effects in terms of how various optimization might heat us versus others. So I wouldn't read too much into that. I think the trends are broadly the same as what you see anywhere in the industry. And the other participants are also quite careful about not calling an IBM (ph) to all of the optimization. So are we, even though from the behavior we see from our -- who we think of other customers, who are the most at risk of optimization. We feel better about the path we see them tech and the usage trends we see of late.

Gregg Moskowitz

Analyst

Okay. Thanks, Oli. And then I wanted to ask on the security side because you mentioned 79 customers now over $100,000, including a handful spending more than $1 million. So for those largest customers in particular, can you give us a flavor for which Datadog security products they're most frequently using? Also, how much of this, again, to those largest wins, how much of this is greenfield as opposed to displacement? Thanks.

Olivier Pomel

Analyst

The largest customers there tend to use almost all of our security products today. Sometimes there are some exceptions. And these are customers that tend to be on the tech forward mid-market higher-end of the market side that deployers world-to-world in their organizations. Typically, the customers that have us in a six- figures are above tend to be -- can be enterprise or mid-market, but the ones that are mid and above tend to be mid-market and more tech forward. And I would say overall, the adoption tracks the -- the adoption in the industry of a unified DevSecOps as a practice. And again to zoom out a little bit, we believe that this is where the whole industry is going. And we're building a product with completely ready and we have a fully mature end-to-end solution that is relevant to every single possible customer. So that by the time this becomes with general practicing in industry where we no-brainer choice for all of those customers and so-far we're pleased with what we're doing there.

Gregg Moskowitz

Analyst

Very helpful. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

At this time, I would now like to turn the conference back over to Olivier Pomel, CEO of Datadog, for closing remarks.

Olivier Pomel

Analyst

Thank you. So first of all, thank you all for attending the call today. I also want to thank all of our employees, all the Datadog's around the world for a Q2 that was very well-executed. And I want to thank all of our customers for making DASH last week such a vibrant conference and making some products here in terms of conversations we've had with them. And with these good words, thank you all.

Operator

Operator

This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.